I was a disinterested student.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

Sometimes fantasy provides the only reasonable explanation for life's inexplicable moments.

There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

What we think and what we eat, combined together, make what we are, physically and mentally.

The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

The "Be good" concept also comes up when we design our products. We want them to have positive social effects.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.